#Bots
(Hypebot) — A Danish man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for using fake accounts and bot-generated streams to defraud streaming ...
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Senators Blackburn And Blumenthal Probe The FTC On The Use Of Ticket Bots
WASHINGTON D.C. (CelebrityAccess) — Following Ticketmaster’s turbulent Taylor Swift presale earlier this month, U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) have ...
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Spotify’s Jen Masset On The Company’s Battle With Bots And Spinfarms
(Hypebot) — Spotify executive Jen Masset talks to Your Morning Coffee’s Jay Gilbert about the harmful practice of stream count manipulation and what ...
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Are You Generating Fake Streams? Everything You Need To Know About Streaming Fraud
(Hypebot) — In a stat-driven music economy dominated by streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, it should come as no surprise that ...
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How Streaming Bots Are Wrecking Independent Musicians’ Careers
(Hypebot) — Unsurprisingly, artists’ desperate quest to gain as many Spotify streams as possible has led to the rise of streaming bots, and their ...
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The Music Biz Weekly Podcast: How To Tell If Your Spotify Account Has Been Botted
(Hypebot) — Madelynn Elyse is the guest on the Music Biz Weekly podcast to discuss her guide to tell if you’ve fallen victim to ...
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How To Know If Your Spotify Account Has Been Botted
(Hypebot) — Learn who you can tell if your Spotify account is a victim of botting and why you should never, ever pay to ...
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Streaming Bots Might Be Tempting, But Artists Should Beware
(Hypebot) — Given the weight of streaming numbers in the music economy, the idea of employing a streaming bot has a significant allure ...
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